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The CEO of Gerber

Gerber states that it does not currently use any genetically engineered fruits or vegetables.

Until now that's been easy because there weren't any staple GMO fruits or vegetables, like apples, on the market.

But that's about to change: genetically engineered apples are on deck to be approved for human consumption in the near future.

We thank Gerber for making a commitment in the past to avoid genetically engineered fruits and vegetables, and we ask Gerber, as the country’s largest baby food maker, to make a firm commitment to never use GMO apples in its baby food.

Signed,

Friends of the Earth

This petition closed over 1 year ago

How this will help

Soon Snow White may not be the only one with reason to be
concerned about apples.

A new genetically engineered Arctic Apple® could be approved
to enter our food supply as early as December,...

Soon Snow White may not be the only one with reason to be
concerned about apples.

A new genetically engineered Arctic Apple® could be approved
to enter our food supply as early as December, and, like other GMO foods, it
won't be labeled and won't have undergone independent safety testing.

Apple growers and consumers say they don't need or want this
GMO apple, but it will soon be in everything from baby food to school lunches
to Happy Meals, posing risks to our health, our environment and apple farmers
across the United States.

This GMO apple was genetically engineered via a new,
virtually untested experimental technique called RNA interference, which many
scientists are concerned may have negative unintended impacts on human health.
And the Arctic Apple® was not designed for increased nutritional value, but for
purely cosmetic purposes -- it was genetically engineered to not brown when
cut.

But without natural browning, apples may look fresh when they are actually
decaying. Worse, apples' natural browning enzyme also helps to fight
diseases and pests, meaning that farmers may have to increase their
pesticide use on these new GMO apples.

Apples already carry some of the highest levels of toxic
pesticide residues, many of them linked to hormone disruption, reproductive
harm and even ADHD. Pound for pound, kids eat more food and have higher levels
of pesticide exposure -- and we know that early life exposures to toxic
pesticides can be especially harmful.

Baby food companies are one of the largest buyers of apples,
and Gerber is one of the world's largest baby food companies. Gerber has
stated that it doesn't currently use GMO fruits or vegetables in their baby
food. Until now that's been easy because there weren't any staple GMO
fruits or vegetables, like apples, on the market.